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Pig
(Paperback)
Brett Mizelle
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R431
R393
Discovery Miles 3 930
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Curly tails, snouts, trotters, 'oinks', mud and unpleasant smells -
these are the cliches of the pig. With their varied roles as
sources of food, as pets and in medical testing, pigs have been
materially and culturally associated with humans for thousands of
years. Today there are more than one billion pigs on the planet,
and there are countless representations of pigs and 'piggishness'
circulating through the cultures of the world. Pig provides a
richly illustrated, compelling look at the long, complicated
relationship between humans and these highly intelligent, sociable
animals. In his insightful book, Brett Mizelle traces the natural
and cultural history of the pig, focusing on the contradictions
between our imaginative representation of pigs and the ways in
which pigs are actually used as meat, experimental material and the
source of hundreds of consumer products. Pig begins with the
evolution of the suidae, animals that were domesticated in many
regions 9,000 years ago, and points toward a future where pigs and
humans are even more closely intertwined thanks to breakthroughs in
biomedical research. Pig also examines the widespread art,
entertainment and literature that has imagined human kinship with
pigs, and the development of modern industrial pork production,
which has removed living pigs from our everyday lives. In charting
how humans have shaped the pig and how the pig has shaped us,
Mizelle focuses on the unresolved contradictions between our
imaginary and lived relations with pigs. Pig will appeal to those
with a love for all things pig and for animals in general.
"Who Speaks for Earthlings?" is a collection of Richard J Deboo's
articles, poems and speeches primarily, but not exclusively, on the
subject of animal rights. Always full of passion and utterly
committed to justice, compassion and love for all lives the
writings collected here will inspire and inform; by turns playful,
resolute, determined and angry, Richard's words shine a bright,
blazing candle on the lies and hypocrisy at the heart of the animal
abuse industries of animal farming, research and the exploitation
of animals in sport and entertainment. As a species we commit many
cruel and unimaginably violent and brutal acts against our fellow
Earthlings, but these writings show that we can do things another
way - we can think and live differently. In so doing we can change
the world, not only for ourselves but for all those who share this
Earth with us.
To what extent, and in what manner, do storytelling practices
accomodate nonhuman subjects and their modalities of experience,
and how can contemporary narrative study shed light on interspecies
interactions and entanglements? In Narratology beyond the Human,
David Herman addresses these questions through a cross-disciplinary
approach to post-Darwinian narratives concerned with animals and
human-animal relationships. Herman considers the enabling and
constraining effects of different narrative media, examining a
range of fictional and nonfictional texts disseminated in print,
comics and graphic novels, and film. In focusing on techniques such
as the use of animal narrators, alternation between human and
nonhuman perspectives, the embedding of stories within stories, and
others, the book explores how specific strategies for portraying
nonhuman agents both emerge from and contributes to broader
attitudes toward animal life. Herman argues that existing
frameworks for narrative inquiry must be modified to take into
account how stories are interwoven with cultural ontologies, or
understandings of what sorts of beings populate the world and how
they relate to humans. Showing how questions of narrative bear on
ideas of species difference and assumptions about animal minds,
Narratology beyond the Human underscores our inextricable
interconnectedness with other forms of creatural life and suggests
that stories can be used to resituate imaginaries of human action
in a more-than-human world.
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